Members of New Mexico’s Picuris Pueblo Tribal Nation have long told stories about having descended from ancient North American ancestors. Genetic evidence now backs up what Picuris people — but not ...

Genetics research has been fundamental in our understanding of human history, including this shocking twist in the story of human evolution. For decades now, scientists have pieced together the story ...

Across the planet, far beyond city lights, Wi-Fi signals, and the noise of modern life, there are communities who have chosen to remain almost entirely untouched by civilization. These ancient tribes ...

TRINIDAD, Eastern Washingtone — Ancient human remains found by hikers outside the small town of Trinidad, Wash., in Eastern Washington will be turned over to local tribes for reburial. State officials ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Milwaukee Public Museum recently returned 67 ancient Menominee ancestors that its archaeologists excavated in the 1960s.

WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - (This April 30 story has been corrected to fix the direction to east, not west, in paragraph 8) DNA obtained from the remains of people who inhabited Pueblo Bonito in ...

Medieval Christians drawing boundaries around ancient Israelite tribes on Holy Land maps had no idea they were influencing how later mapmakers would depict political power. Those red ink lines, meant ...